Colloque organisé à Toronto par Grégoire Holtz et John Haines, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Programme
April 6, Goldring Student Center, Victoria College, University of Toronto
9:00 – 9:15 am
Foreword by Ethan Matt Kavaler (Director, CRRS)
Introduction by John Haines and Grégoire Holtz
9:15 – 10:15 am
Session I: The Experience of Curiosity
Camelia Sararu (University of Toronto, Department of French)
“‘Pure’ Versus Utilitarian Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century French Travel Accounts to the Middle East, Persia and India”
Oana Baboi (University of Toronto, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science)
“Crustaceans, crosses, and cures”
10:15 – 11:00 am Plenary Talk
Myriam Marrache-Gouraud (University of West Brittany in Brest)
“Cabinet, Museum, Treasury… Common Names for Uncommon Places”
11:15 – 12:15 pm
Session II: The Storage of Curiosity
Jean-Olivier Richard (University of Toronto, St Michael College, Christianity and Culture: Christianity and Science)
“How to Become a Curiosity: Life and Afterlife of Père Castel”
Myron McShane (University of Toronto, Department of French)
“The Delights and Limits of Curiosity: Gemstones and Pillars in a French Renaissance Commentary on Poetic Geography”
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Session III: The Outer Limits of Curiosity
Leslie Wexler (University of Toronto, Department of English)
“Curious Critters: Insects in Shakespeare”
Paul Harrison (University of Toronto, English)
“The Early Modern Desire to Know Everything”
3:00 – 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:30 pm
Session IV: The Sounds of Curiosity
John McClelland (University of Toronto, Department of French)
“Curiosity Incarnated: Pontus de Tyard’s Curieux”
John Haines (University of Toronto, Faculty of Music)
“Musical Curiosities at the Canadian Museum of History”
4:45 – 6:00 pm
Closing Reception at Regent’s Foyer (GSC203), Goldring Student Centre, Victoria University
